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Summer Rain (from Rainbow – 2017)
Previous Thoughts: “So, we’re at a point where disappointment becomes frustration. Summer Rain includes many of the group’s hallmarks, from its retro 90’s beat to the classical sample that bolsters its instrumental. I’ve even seen some compare its vibe to last year’s immaculate Rough. But while Rain mixes in many of these familiar ingredients, it lacks the energy I’ve come to expect from GFriend.” (full review)
Updated thoughts: Wow, I was really pissed off at GFriend’s career trajectory when this song was first released! Needless to say, it’s aged very well since then. I still think it’s the weakest title track of this particular GFriend style, but I happen to miss this style very much so it sounds very welcome in 2024. The classical sample is used well and the lower tone of the chorus feels more robust than I remember. Summer Rain is GFriend through and through and it’s really hard to be disappointed by that.
| Hooks | 8 |
| Production | 9 |
| Longevity | 9 |
| Bias | 8 |
| RATING | 8.5 |
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At the time, I might have agreed with that anger about Gfriend’s trajectory, but I still absolutely prefer their earlier songs to their later songs. Their subsequent summer songs were all departures from their signature sound (and, in my opinion, significantly inferior) while Time for the Moon Night and its copies are closer but lack the bombastic energy I loved of their earlier work (even at their most maudlin in Summer Rain, their Powerful-Innocent concept incorporated heavy beats).
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you definitely weren’t the only one who felt negatively about this track. I remember some people saying that it was the beginning of the end for gfriend (pretty dramatic if you ask me). For myself, I was disappointed by “summer rain” but I actually preferred it to “love whisper”. They’re closer now, but I still prefer the wistfulness of rain
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This one is a grower for sure. I always thought it was boring, but over the last two years I’ve gone back for that chorus.
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